How Journaling Can Help Us Make Sense of Our Lives

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Keeping a written account of your thoughts, feelings and observations can be a powerful habit – a source of healing, growth, and even creativity. We explore the art and practice of journaling, from stream-of-consciousness writing to gratitude lists to revisiting your most cringe-worthy teenage poetry. We’ll talk with an author, a comedian, and a therapist about the many ways we can document our lives and stories, and we’ll get started during the show. Grab a pen and notebook – we’re journaling. Guests: Thaisa Frank, author, "Finding Your Writer's Voice" and five books of fiction; writing instructor, the San Francisco Writers' Grotto; winner, the 2023 Pushcart Literary Prize Scott Lifton, host and producer, "Mortified" Jenna Robinson, professor of Psychology, CIIS and the Wright Institute; licensed marriage and family therapist; expressive arts therapist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Kids are back in school and Labor Day is upon us.
0:51.7	It's that time of year when summer really ends.
0:54.9	And for many of us, it's the real new year when summer really ends, and for many of us,
0:59.4	it's the real new year, a time to figure out what the next season of our lives is going to hold. And so, we're talking about journaling today, that multifaceted practice of getting
1:04.9	words on paper, not for anybody else, but for ourselves. We'll talk with a diary expert for mortified, a therapist who uses journaling to help clients heal,
1:14.4	and a writer who's going to guide us through a little exercise live here on the air.
1:19.9	Grab your pen and paper.
1:21.2	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:39.9	We're talking journaling, the wise and the hows and the cringe.
1:44.8	And this show marks a milestone in our digital community, too,
1:48.4	which we've been building over on the platform Discord.
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